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60Interpreting people and interpreting textsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (3). 2006.What is the relation between interpreting a person's speech and actions, on the one hand, and interpreting a written text, on the other? That question is considered in connection with the theories of interpretation offered by Donald Davidson and Paul Ricoeur. There are some important similarities between those theories. However, it is argued that Davidson and Ricoeur are divided on fundamental questions about the relation between meaning and intention, about the reference of texts, about the rel…Read more
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Reply to Simulation Theory and Mental ConceptsIn Jérôme Dokic & Joëlle Proust (eds.), Simulation and Knowledge of Action, John Benjamins. 2002.
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22Tractarian Semantics.The Metaphysics of the TractatusPhilosophical Quarterly 41 (164): 354. 1991.
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10Memory, Expression, and Past‐Tense Self‐KnowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1): 54-76. 2007.How should we understand our capacity to remember our past intentional states? And what can we leam from Wittgenstein's treatment of this topic? Three questions are considered. First, what is the relation between our past attitudes and our present beliefs about them? Realism about past attitudes is defended. Second, how should we understand Wittgenstein's view that self‐ascriptions of past attitudes are a kind of “response” and that the “language‐game” of reporting past attitudes is “the primary…Read more
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58Solipsism and First Person/Third Person AsymmetriesEuropean Journal of Philosophy 4 (2): 137-154. 1996.
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29WittgensteinRoutledge. 2011.Life and works -- The Tractatus, language and logic -- The Tractatus, reality and the limits of language -- From the Tractatus to philosophical investigations -- Intentionality and rule-following -- Mind and psychology -- Knowledge and certainty -- Religion and anthropology -- Legacy and influence.
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25Problems of Vision (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 729-731. 2000.Gerald Vision describes and defends a view of visual perception that combines a causal theory of vision with direct realism, and offers novel solutions to a number of traditional puzzles for causal theories. The book contains extensive discussions of the views of many writers—predominantly from the tradition of philosophical work on vision inaugurated by Grice and Strawson. The principal subjects of critical discussion include Searle, Sellars, Peacocke, Lewis, Jackson, Dretske, Armstrong, Heil a…Read more
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61Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, by Richard MoranMind 118 (471): 850-855. 2009.
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2Wittgenstein's externalism: Context, self-knowledge & the pastIn Tomáš Marvan (ed.), What determines content?: the internalism/externalism dispute, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006.
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146Causality, interpretation, and the mindOxford University Press. 1994.Philosophers of mind have long been interested in the relation between two ideas: that causality plays an essential role in our understanding of the mental; and that we can gain an understanding of belief and desire by considering the ascription of attitudes to people on the basis of what they say and do. Many have thought that those ideas are incompatible. William Child argues that there is in fact no tension between them, and that we should accept both. He shows how we can have a causal unders…Read more
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90Wittgenstein, dreaming and anti-realism: A reply to Richard ScheerPhilosophical Investigations 32 (4): 329-337. 2009.I have argued that Wittgenstein's treatment of dreaming involves a kind of anti-realism about the past: what makes "I dreamed p " true is, roughly, that I wake with the feeling or impression of having dreamed p . Richard Scheer raises three objections. First, that the texts do not support my interpretation. Second, that the anti-realist view of dreaming does not make sense, so cannot be Wittgenstein's view. Third, that the anti-realist view leaves it a mystery why someone who reports having drea…Read more
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Remembering intentionsIn Arif Ahmed (ed.), Wittgenstein's Philosophical investigations: a critical guide, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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259Does the Tractatus Contain a Private Language Argument?In Peter M. Sullivan & Michael D. Potter (eds.), Wittgenstein's Tractatus: history and interpretation, Oxford University Press. pp. 143-169. 2013.Cora Diamond has claimed that Wittgenstein’s Tractatus contains an early ‘private language argument’: an argument that private objects in other people’s minds can play no role in the language I use for talking about their sensations. She further claims that the Tractatus contains an early version of the later idea that an inner process stands in need of outward criteria. The paper argues against these claims, on the grounds that they depend on an unwarranted construal of the Tractatus’s notion…Read more
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122Articulating reasons: An introduction to inferentialism. Robert B. BrandomMind 110 (439): 721-725. 2001.
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80Wittgensteinian themes: essays in honour of David Pears (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2001.A stellar group of philosophers offer new works on themes from the great philosophy of Wittgenstein, honoring one of his most eminent interpreters David Pears. This collection covers both the early and the later work of Wittgenstein, relating it to current debates in philosophy. Topics discussed include solipsism, ostension, rules, necessity, privacy, and consciousness.
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Vision and causal understandingIn Johannes Roessler, Hemdat Lerman & Naomi Eilan (eds.), Perception, Causation, and Objectivity, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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128On the Dualism of Scheme and ContentProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 53-71. 19934.William Child; IV*—On the Dualism of Scheme and Content, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 53–72, https://doi.org/
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56Crane on mental causationProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 97 (1): 97-102. 1997.William Child; Discussions: Crane on Mental Causation, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 97, Issue 1, 1 June 1997, Pages 97–102, https://doi.org/1.
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Wittgenstein's externalismIn Daniel Whiting (ed.), The later Wittgenstein on language, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 63-80. 2009.
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40Reply to Alvin I. GoldmanIn Simulation and Knowledge of Action, John Benjamins. pp. 45--21. 2002.
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107Memory, expression, and past-tense self-knowledgePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1). 2006.How should we understand our capacity to remember our past intentional states? And what can we learn from Wittgenstein's treatment of this topic? Three questions are considered. First, what is the relation between our past attitudes and our present beliefs about them? Realism about past attitudes is defended. Second, how should we understand Wittgenstein's view that self-ascriptions of past attitudes are a kind of "response" and that the "language-game" of reporting past attitudes is "the primar…Read more
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143Anomalism, uncodifiability, and psychophysical relationsPhilosophical Review 102 (2): 215-245. 1993.
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171Vision and experience: The causal theory and the disjunctive conceptionPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (168): 297-316. 1992.
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